Transylvanian cornulețe with lard and sour cream
Tender cornulețe (crescent biscuits) made with lard and sour cream, filled with plum butter and, if you like, walnuts. A homemade version in the Transylvanian style.
Classic method
Ingredients
- 500 g white flour
- 250 g soft pork lard (not melted)
- 250 g full-fat sour cream (20–25%)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 250–300 g thick plum butter (magiun)
- 50 g ground walnuts (optional)
- Vanilla icing sugar, to finish
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How to make it
- Mix the soft lard with the sour cream and salt until smooth.
- Work in the flour gradually. Knead just until a smooth, soft dough comes together, without overworking it. If the sour cream is very runny, add only a little more flour, just enough so you can roll it out.
- Wrap the dough and chill it for at least 2 hours. Divide it into 4–5 pieces so it is easier to roll out.
- On a work surface very lightly dusted with flour, roll each piece out into a thin circle, about 2–3 mm thick. Cut the circle into 12–16 triangles.
- Put a little thick plum butter, plain or mixed with walnuts, at the base of each triangle. Roll up from the base to the tip and gently curve the ends.
- Place the crescents on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake them in the oven preheated to 180°C, top and bottom heat, for about 20–25 minutes, until just lightly golden. Check the first tray from 18 minutes.
- While they are still slightly warm, roll them in vanilla icing sugar. Let them cool completely before storing.
Thermomix adaptation TM6
The TM6 mixes the dough; you shape the crescents by hand and bake them in the oven. Do not overmix the dough.
Ingredients
- 500 g white flour
- 250 g soft pork lard (not melted)
- 250 g full-fat sour cream (20–25%)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 250–300 g thick plum butter (magiun)
- 50 g ground walnuts (optional)
- Vanilla icing sugar, to finish
How to make it
- Put the soft lard, sour cream and salt into the mixing bowl. Mix 15 sec / speed 3, without heating.
- Add the flour. Mix 15 sec / speed 4. Scrape the mixture down from the sides of the mixing bowl and, only if needed, mix for another 5–10 sec / speed 3.
- Turn the dough out onto the work surface, bring it together quickly with your hands without kneading for long, wrap it and chill it for at least 2 hours.
- If you are using walnuts, chop them in a clean, dry mixing bowl 4–5 sec / speed 5; mix them by hand into the thick plum butter.
- Roll the dough out into sheets about 2–3 mm thick, cut out triangles, fill them and roll them up as in the classic method.
- Bake at 180°C, top and bottom heat, for about 20–25 minutes, checking from 18 minutes. Dust the crescents with icing sugar while they are slightly warm.
Estimated nutritional values*
Per serving: 1 small crescent, from a batch of about 72 pieces
- Energy
- approx. 78 kcal
- Protein
- approx. 0,8 g
- Carbohydrates
- approx. 8,1 g
- Fat
- approx. 4,7 g
Estimate based on 500 g white flour (type 000), 250 g lard, 250 g sour cream 20%, 275 g plum butter (the middle of the 250–300 g range), 50 g optional walnuts and 30 g icing sugar assumed for finishing. Whole recipe: about 5,584 kcal. At 65–80 pieces: about 70–86 kcal per piece. Without walnuts, about 73 kcal per piece for a batch of 72. Values change with the ingredient labels, the icing sugar actually used and the yield; they are not laboratory-measured values.
Source: Inspiration and source: a homemade version in the Transylvanian style, based on the traditional combination of lard and sour cream; the proportions, steps and TM6 adaptation were written for
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